Supplemental adjustable stove-leg.



J. W. SALISBURY.

SUPPLEMENTAL ADJUSTABLE STOVE LEG.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.13,1911Q 1,036,726, Patented Aug.27, 1912.

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J. W. SALISBURY.

SUPPLEMENTAL ADJUSTABLE STOVE LEG.

. APPLICATION FILED DEO.13, 191-L v 1,036,726. Patented Aug. 27, 1912.

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JAMES W. SALISBURY, 0F HOYTVILLE, OHIO.

SUPPLEMENTAL ADJUSTABLE STOVE-LEG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 13, 1911.

Patented Aug. 27, 1912.

Serial No. 665,530.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. SALISBURY,

-a citizen of the United States, residing at- Hoytville, in the county of Wood and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Supplemental Adjustable Stove-Legs, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to means for shifting the weight of a stove from the regular stove legs upon which the stove normally rests to supplemental stove legs carrying rollers, said shifting of the weight of the stove being produced by means of a relative vertical movement between the stove and the usual stove legs and the supplemental rollercarrying legs.

The object of the invention is to provide for easy movement of the stove from one part of the room or store to another without the use of trucks, or without requiring the stove to be lifted bodily from the floor.

A further object of the invention is to provide means whereby the floor board or metal sheet upon which the stove normally rest-s can be elevated and transported with the stove without removing the same from beneath'the stove.

With these objects in view the invention consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter described, pointed out in the claims and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the base portion of a stove with the parts in normal position. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the stove lifted and the supplemental legs resting upon the floor. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through one of the stove legs. Fig. 4c is a similar section parts being shown in position for moving the stove. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the supplemental legs, the ordinary stove leg being removed. Figs. 6 and '7 are plan views of a corner portion of the floor board, and the parts carried thereby, a portion of Fig. 6 being in section. Fig. 8 is a detailed view of the lower end of the adjustable leg, partly in section. Fig. 9 is a perspective view of the adjustable leg detached and with the roller removed. Fig. 10 is a section on the line 10--10'of Fig. 3.

In these drawings 1 represents the base of a stove of any ordinary form, and 2 the apron or flange usually provided and which may be of any ornamental design. Portions of said flange are removed at corners and removable plates 3 adapted to be inserted at the said corners, said plates forming a continuance around the stove base of the apron 2. The stove normally rests upon suitable supporting legs 4: which are grooved to receive supplemental vertically slidable legs 5. As a description of one of these will apply to all of them the construction of only one of the four corner portions of the stove will suflice to fully explain the invention.

The supplemental leg 5 is provided with an enlarged casting 6 at its upper end and the leg 3 carries an inwardly extending lug 7 adjacent its lower end, said lug having a suitably threaded bore 8 and the threaded bore 8 is also formed in the casting 6. These bores are oppositely threaded and a bolt 9 having oppositely threaded end portions works in said lug and in said casting, the bolt having a squared nut portion 10 formed midway its ends. A suitable roller or caster 11 is secured upon the lower end of the supplemental leg 5 said caster being provided with ball bearings 12. The stove leg at normally rests upon a suitable floor board or piece of metal, tin or zinc, 13, and said floor board is provided with an open ing 14: sufficiently large to permit the passage therethrough of the caster 11 and the supplmental leg 5, regardless of the angle at which said caster may be turned. The opening 14 is normally closed and in order to provide a common means for closing said opening and also for securing the floor board to the stove when the stove is to be lifted I provide a stud l5 and a cap 16, the said cap having a shank 17 which is longitudinally slotted as shown at 18, thereby permitting both a sliding and a turning movement upon and about the stud 15, the shank of the stud extending outwardly through the slot 18. A hinge leaf 19 is carried by the end of the shank and when elevated engages a pin 20 carried by the lug 7.

The cap 16 is normally in the position shown in Fig. 7 in which position it covers the opening 14. When the stove is to be moved the cap is swung around into the position shown in Fig. 6 and the leaf 19 is then engaged with the pin 20 thus securing the floor board to the stove leg 4. By then turning the nut 10 the leg 5 will be forced downwardly through the opening 14: thus throwing the weight of the stove upon said leg and lifting the leg 4 and the floor board 13, clear of the floor.

What I claim is l. The combination with a stove having supporting legs, of vertically adjustable sup-' plemental legs, rollers carried thereby, and

legs 7; are adapted to rest, said board having openings through which the supplemental legs can project and means for connecting said floor board to the first mentioned legs.

3. In a stove, a stove leg grooved upon its in'nerface and carrying an inwardly extending lug, said lug having a threaded bore, a supplemental legslideible in the said groove, and provided at its upper end Witha casting, said casting having a bore oppositely threaded with respect toythe 'bore of the -lug, a :bolt having oppositely threaded end portions adapted to work respectively inthebor'es oft-he lug'and the casting, and a nut portion carried by said .bolt.

at. In a stove, a normally supporting stove leg adapted for vertical movement relative tot-he base of a stove, a supplemental stove leg having a threaded bore, a lugcarried by the first mentioned leg, said lug having an openingthrough Which the supplemental leg is adapted to Work and having also a thread- =edbore 'in'alinement'with the threaded bore of the supplemental leg, and a bolt-having oppositely threade'dvend portions, said end V portions'threading respectively intoithe bore of the lugand into the't-hreaded borerof the.

supplemental leg.

5. In a device of the kind described, the

combination With :a stove leg adapted to normally support the Weight io f-the stove, a floor board upon which said stove leg normally rests,=a supplemental leg, ra roller'carfled-thereby, the-floor board having an opening through which said roller is adapted to pass, an adjustable cap, said cap in one position covering said opening, means'carriedby the cap adapted to lock the same to the first mentioned stove leg, when the'cap is in posi tion to uncover the opening, saidcap being loosely secured to the floor board, and'meansfor imparting vertical movement in opposite directions to the said legs.

JAMES W.,SALISBURY. Witnesses: -L. D. ARNOLD,

S. WILDER'sIN.

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